The last day of the discount UK electrical retailer - a familiar sight on our
high streets and out-of-town shopping malls for the past 79 years - must be
a contender for one of the most tawdry in its long history.

Those customers lucky enough to be allowed in small batches into the store in
Manchester Fort, a no-thrills retail complex in north Manchester, found only
the dregs of the bargain basement bin, which everybody else had thrown